Life on Earth has always depended on nitrogen. As a building block of proteins and DNA, nitrogen is essential to all living ...

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

New research reveals that hydrothermal vents provided early Earth with abundant nitrogen, challenging previous theories.

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

While the Cambrian Explosion kickstarted complex life in a major way some 530 million years, the true timeline of life on ...

A study of ancient stromatolites reveals that ammonium reservoirs in early Earth's oceans, likely influenced by volcanic ...

A study shows that electrical charges in sprays of water can cause chemical reactions that form organic molecules from inorganic materials. The findings provide evidence that microlightning may have ...

Between a rock and a green place: Michelle Gehringer studies fossilized life on early Earth to learn more about the evolution of (oxygenic) photosynthesis - the process that makes the oxygen we ...

Earth was so cold at the time that the oceans ... all of which may have contributed to the early development of life, the University of Portsmouth said in a release. Kirkland said the research ...